{"id":1441,"date":"2013-09-29T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T23:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:39:11","slug":"beyond-scientism-and-relativism-festschrift-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Scientism and Relativism"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"fb_share\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/?p=1441\" layout=\"button_count\"><\/fb:like><\/span><p><a href=\"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/?attachment_id=1801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1801 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Marc-at-desk-2022-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Marc-at-desk-2022-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Marc-at-desk-2022-85x85.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Here is a link to my 2010 contribution to the festschrift \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirp.uqam.ca\/CIRP\/10-Applebaum.pdf\">celebrating Amedeo Giorgi\u2019s career in phenomenological psychology<\/a>. I pose the question: why should the scientific status of our work be a compelling issue for the next generation of qualitative psychological researchers?\u00a0 I explore the criteria for science proposed by Giorgi, and discuss van Manen\u2019s hermeneutic method as an alternate, aestheticizing approach.<\/p>\n<p>My aim is not to focus primarily in a debate between methods, but rather to address the core epistemological and human science concerns that animate the discussion in the first place. As Richard J. Bernstein (1985) commented in his brilliant book\u00a0<em>Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;It is our cultural understanding of science, especially the physical sciences, and the remarkable &#8216;success&#8217; of the scientific enterprise since its modern origins that has set the context for the intellectual and cultural problems in the modern world&#8230;there are deep cultural reasons and causes&#8211;as Gadamer, Arendt, and Habermas have argued&#8211;why in the modern world the only concept of reason that seems to make sense is one in which we think of reason as an instrument for determining the most efficient or effective means to a determinate end, and why the only concept of activity that seems viable is one of technical application, manipulation, and control&#8221; (p. 46).<\/p>\n<p>Phenomenology and hermeneutics must play an active part in this debate about the meanings of science, and grappling with the meaning of &#8220;method&#8221; within the human sciences is part of this exploration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Painting photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jef_safi\/3775519440\/\">jef safi \\ &#8216;Parker Mojo Flying<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"fb_share\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/?p=1441\" layout=\"button_count\"><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a link to my 2010 contribution to the festschrift \u00a0celebrating Amedeo Giorgi\u2019s career in phenomenological psychology. I pose the question: why should the scientific status of our work be a compelling issue for the next generation of qualitative psychological researchers?\u00a0 I explore the criteria for science proposed by Giorgi, and discuss van Manen\u2019s<br \/><span class=\"excerpt_more\"><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/?p=1441\">[continue reading&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[35,29,24],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-science","category-lead","tag-applebaum","tag-hermeneutics","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenomenologyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}